Constituency
208. Bhagabanpur
Community mirrorWest Bengal Assembly Election, 1987
WB-BHAGABANPUR
CPM 53.6%won by 9.8%INC 43.7%
What changed here
DerivedCommunist Party of India (Marxist) held the seat; the winning margin narrowed from 19.3% to 9.8%.
- Vote consolidatedThe top two candidates took 97.3% of the vote between them, up from 89.0% — a tighter two-way contest.
Written from the constituency figures by a fixed set of rules — no language model.
Electorate
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Turnout
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Valid votes
77,984
Margin
7,674
9.84%
Candidates
5 contested · winner CPM- 1PRADHAN PRASANTACommunist Party of India (Marxist) · CPM41,76753.6%
- 2JANA HARIPADAIndian National Congress · INC34,09343.7%
- 3NETRA DAS MAHAPATRASUC · SUC1,7142.2%
- 4NANI GOPAL MAITIIndependent · IND3240.4%
- 5MISRA HARI HARIndependent · IND860.1%
Since 1982
Derived- Winner then
- CPM
- Winner now
- CPM
- CPM–INC swing
- −9.5%
- CPM share
- 54.1% → 53.6%
- INC share
- 34.8% → 43.7%
- Turnout
- — → —